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Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hello!

We are trying to use the QMS to make some of the mundane tasks of updating an installation easier to administer. Things like: changing the order in which applications load etc.

As we are not a .NET development company and thus don't want to maintain a Visual Studio project, we were planning to use Powershell to do this.

We have come this far with our script:

$service = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri http://someHost:4799/QMS/Service -Namespace QlikViewServer -Credential (get-credential)

$serviceKey = $service.GetTimeLimitedServiceKey()

$service.GetServices([QlikViewServer.ServiceTypes]::All, $true)

It seems to work fine until here. When we don't provide the credentials in step one, an authentication error is thrown when trying to get the service key. This way it returns what looks like a real key. Tells us that we are doing something right. But then we don't know what to do with the key afterwards.

We couldn't find the ServiceKeyClientMessageInspector class, mentioned at the QlikBlog.at

QlikView Management API - #2 Export / Add / Delete Document CALs

Any ideas? Either from Powershell-Webservice experience or because you are actually doing something similar?

Regards,

Sandro

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:16:03 GMT

No takers for this one? 🙂

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

Bill_Britt — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:25:47 GMT

Hi,

I am not a programmer so I am not able to help you there. However, I would asked have you setup the Qlikview Management API group on the local machine and put the user that is running the script as a member of that group?

Bill

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:16:09 GMT

Hello Bill!

Finally got around to checking that. It is in the "QlikView Management API" group, the "QlikView Administrators" group and even the "QlikView EDX" group.

Thanks

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:54:07 GMT

I'm trying the same and getting an error with GetServices. Has anyone used Powershell successfully to call the QliKVew Server API?

Cannot convert argument "serviceTypes", with value: "All", for "GetServices" to type "QlikViewServer.ServiceTypes": "Cannot convert value "All" to type

"QlikViewServer.ServiceTypes". Error: "Invalid cast from 'QlikViewServer.ServiceTypes' to 'QlikViewServer.ServiceTypes'.""

At C:\app\ACCE-MIS\qms.ps1:5 char:1

+ $service.GetServices([QlikViewServer.ServiceTypes]::All , $true )

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodArgumentConversionInvalidCastArgument

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 04:35:43 GMT

Just a hunch, but your error sounds like Powershell doesn't know that enumeration, yet.

From looking at the rest of the script: Why would it know QlikViewServer.ServiceTypes? How do you create the $service object? (same way I did?)

I am not near the test server right now, so can't check it myself if it is there or what the error message for me actually was

Sandro

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 20:53:39 GMT

Hi Sandro,

As far as I can review, the ServiceKeyClientMessageInspector class is part of a wrapper for a class implementing IClientMessageInspector, the idea is to send a header called "X-Service-Key" with the value provided by GetTimeLimitedServiceKey(), so you can use it in every request, and the New-WebServiceProxy don´t provide a property/method to add a header (well I just googled it).

Have someone encountered a different way to communicate to the QMS API Service with PowerShell?

Regards,

Cristian

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 07:33:19 GMT

Hi Sandro,

Did you get this to work ? I am also trying to use the QMS webservice from Powershell but haven't managed to get it to work sofar.

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

krumbein — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:52:36 GMT

Unfortunately I only have access to a QlikView Server in one particular customer project and that project right now doesn't allow any work on this. I'll have to see, when I'll find the time to try something on this again. Until we stopped working on this, I hadn't managed to get it to work

Sandro

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

analienx — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 11:01:34 GMT

Hello,

use following code and adjust it to your needs. Basically it enables you to connect to QMC (QMS) with the exported certificate. It is essential to have all the certificates and use the Client certificate - Exporting certificates through the QMC ‒ Qlik Sense.

$def =@"
public class ClientCertWebClient : System.Net.WebClient
{
    System.Net.HttpWebRequest request = null;
    System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509CertificateCollection certificates = null;

     protected override System.Net.WebRequest GetWebRequest(System.Uri address)
     {
         request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)base.GetWebRequest(address);
         if (certificates != null)
         {
             request.ClientCertificates.AddRange(certificates);
         }
         return request;
     }

     public void AddCerts(System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate[] certs)
     {
         if (certificates == null)
         {
             certificates = new System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509CertificateCollection();
         }
         if (request != null)
         {
             request.ClientCertificates.AddRange(certs);
         }
         certificates.AddRange(certs);
     }
 }
"@;

Add-Type -TypeDefinition $def;

$xrfkey = "0123456789abcdef";
$req = New-Object ClientCertWebClient
# Overrided $req.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials 

# LOAD CERTIFICATE FROM STORE00
$certs = Get-ChildItem ("Microsoft.PowerShell.Security\Certificate::LocalMachine\My\YOURCERTTHUMBPRINT");
$req.AddCerts($certs); 
$req.QueryString.Add("xrfkey", $xrfkey) ;
$req.Headers.Add("X-Qlik-xrfkey", $xrfkey);
$req.Headers.Add("X-Qlik-User", "UserDirectory=internal;UserId=qs_admin");
#$req.DownloadString(("https://CENTRALNODE:4242/QRS/app?xrfkey=" + $xrfkey));
$req.DownloadString(("https://CENTRALNODE:4242/qrs/about/api/description"));

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 08:44:58 GMT

Hello Jakub, thank you for the input 🙂

I noticed that you are referencing the Qlik Sense documentation. My question was about QlikView server.

Any idea if it should work the same there?

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

rheijnen — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:51:43 GMT

Hello there,

I've been trying this for a long time now and I haven't really gotten any further than you in this Sandro.

The problem is that you somehow have to put the service key in the header.

with soap ui I get everything I want back successfully. The problem is that the command we're using New-WebServiceProxy doesn't allow a header to be added. Please see the following website: New-WebServiceProxy which explains the whole command.

Now see the REST request: Invoke-RestMethod which does allow you to add a header.

This is a common problem with powershell and soap. A possibility to use the new-webserviceproxy command is to send a soap envelope with it but I am a bad programmer. I don't really understand how I can utilize this in poiwershell.

I hope there is someone here who can help us out with this whole thing because it's driving me crazy.

Thanks,

René

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

Molange — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:38:18 GMT

Does anyone fixed this issue with a Invoke-RestMethod?? Or can explain how to use a New-WebServiceProxy comdlet to avoid the "Missing key" error??

Re: Qlikview Management Service with Powershell

krumbein — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 07:47:15 GMT

Looks like the issue was solved in this other thread

https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView-Management/Call-QMS-API-with-PowerShell-and-get-running-tasks/td-p/1560940